Europe Under Internet Censorship Threat: New EU Telecom Package Challenges Basic Internet Freedoms
April 29, 2009
On May 5th in fact, the EU Parliament will vote a package of new regulations (the so-called "Telecom Package") which may free European Internet providers to decide which content, services and applications European users can access and use.
The Telecom Package will force users to choose among pre-packaged options of accessibility. Internet providers will tell you WHERE to go and WHAT to use online, dismantling instantly the essence of the Web as you know it today.
In this article you can find out details about the Telecom Package being reviewed, what its consequences could be, and what action you can take now to prevent this from happening.
If you care about the Internet and about the amazing opportunity that offers to each one of us, I warmly invite you to read closely this report and to evaluate by yourself how to best act to stop this Telecom Package from becoming official law.
HERE all the details
Europe Under Internet Censorship Threat: New EU Telecom Pack
i knew it was only a matter of time until this idea spread to the western nations.
technologically advanced totalitarians have been doing this for years in china, north korea, cuba, all over the middle east. total corruption of one of the last vestiges of true freedom.
i fell in love with the internet because of my desire for unrestricted communication (be that personal, political, musical, sexual or otherwise) and slowly we are loosing ground to the deep pockets that run the systems. worrying about our privacy is trivial to them when theres money to be made. and allowing us to exchange ideas and knowledge freely dangers the powers that be, who want to control what we watch, read, eat, drink and smoke.
wow i'm rambling. is it obvious that i've read Fahrenheit 451 more times than i can count?
technologically advanced totalitarians have been doing this for years in china, north korea, cuba, all over the middle east. total corruption of one of the last vestiges of true freedom.
i fell in love with the internet because of my desire for unrestricted communication (be that personal, political, musical, sexual or otherwise) and slowly we are loosing ground to the deep pockets that run the systems. worrying about our privacy is trivial to them when theres money to be made. and allowing us to exchange ideas and knowledge freely dangers the powers that be, who want to control what we watch, read, eat, drink and smoke.
wow i'm rambling. is it obvious that i've read Fahrenheit 451 more times than i can count?
2 punk rockers in the Big Smokey 4/3-4/9
The devil will be in the detail.
The internet will need completely redesigning if sufficient control over it is to be obtained by authorities. Currently it's protocols view censorship as breakages and will automatically route round them.
Luckily, the organisations that want this are notoriously bad at working well with one another...
The internet will need completely redesigning if sufficient control over it is to be obtained by authorities. Currently it's protocols view censorship as breakages and will automatically route round them.
Luckily, the organisations that want this are notoriously bad at working well with one another...
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Pauli Wallnuts
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in the U.K at the moment we are not only being what to watch,read,eat drink & smoke, but the government is spending millions telling people how to sneeze, u couldn't make it up.Clayman wrote:i knew it was only a matter of time until this idea spread to the western nations.
technologically advanced totalitarians have been doing this for years in china, north korea, cuba, all over the middle east. total corruption of one of the last vestiges of true freedom.
i fell in love with the internet because of my desire for unrestricted communication (be that personal, political, musical, sexual or otherwise) and slowly we are loosing ground to the deep pockets that run the systems. worrying about our privacy is trivial to them when theres money to be made. and allowing us to exchange ideas and knowledge freely dangers the powers that be, who want to control what we watch, read, eat, drink and smoke.
wow i'm rambling. is it obvious that i've read Fahrenheit 451 more times than i can count?
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Ingwey Gooblebogger
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They are doing it, here, as well. I think this type of message is going out in many many countries.in the U.K at the moment we are not only being what to watch,read,eat drink & smoke, but the government is spending millions telling people how to sneeze, u couldn't make it up.
In Vancouver, though most of the locals are so ill-mannered that maybe if they learn not to cough in people's faces that will be a good thing?
(If these messages can get them to do so, maybe we can try to make most Vancouverites much less of the stupid, self-absorbed, fuckoffs that they are now?
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